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The SaveLFC DVD – download it for free now! The DVD contains Steve Zissou’s documentary of the owners’ time at the club. It’s something all of us should watch. Here’s the DVD Preview with screen shots: http://www.ourclubourshirt.com/SaveLFCDVD.pdf Here’s how to make your DVD. Step 1 – Download the DVD image file You . . . → Read More: The SaveLFC DVD – download it for free now and pass it to your Red mates! Tom Hicks, May 2010: “We have no intention of selling any of our top players and we have a substantial transfer budget in place”. “There’s so much misinformation about transfer spending. It’s more than doubled under the ownership of George and myself from the previous three years and we will make a significant investment this summer. It’s really about getting the right players.” Really, Tom? Let’s see. Continue reading Transfer Watch 2010 2010: Four Liars of the Apocalypse 12th January 2010 – Tom Hicks Jr tells Liverpool fan and SOS member Steve Horner to do something I’m not sure the majority of grown men would like to be able to do. Mr Horner declined, despite Mr Hicks assuring him that he’d been laying off the garlic for a while. Tom Hicks Jnr under pressure to resign from Liverpool board over obscene email to fan Continue reading The Warts And All Stadium Timeline – 2010 2009: Spare any change? 24th January 2009 – Hicks trails around the middle east like a rag and bone man (private jet instead of horse and cart of course) looking for investors for the club. The Telegraph went as far as running down the key negotiators. 22nd February 2009 – Spirit of Shankly’s inaugural AGM takes place. 27th February 2009 – Rick Parry leaves Liverpool FC. Fans openly weep in the street. Continue reading The Warts And All Stadium Timeline – 2009 2008: Credit Crunched Cowboys 8th January 2008 – Hazel Blears, Government Minister announces there’s no need for an inquiry into the plans. She said: “Local planning authorities are normally best placed to make decisions relating to their areas. It is right that in general, they should be free to carry out their duties responsibly, with the minimum of interference.” 10th January 2008 – apparently Liverpool in no rush over stadium plan. Continue reading The Warts And All Stadium Timeline – 2008 2007: New Owners, New Era, New Anfield 6th February 2007 - Hicks and Gillett buy the club. 60 days. Large swimming pools. Spades in the ground. No debt on the club – I mean, it’s totally different from what the Glazers are doing. 20th February 2007 – stadium plans were on display in the Vernon Sangster. It was still the Parrybowl at that stage. 12th March 2007 – parts of Stanley Park were fenced off, and bore holes made to test the ground. Progress, it seemed, was being made. Liverpool Echo – New Anfield Continue reading The Warts And All Stadium Timeline – 2007 2006: Moores, Parry and Bowls
13th July 2006 – Whoops! Moores and Parry are running out of time to get it started or they’ll miss out on that self-same grant. The grant, by the way, is European Union grant funding awarded via the NWDA. That’s the North West Development Agency, not the rap band. Although I could be wrong. 18th July 2006 – Parry says the stadium plans ‘won’t collapse’. Continue reading The Warts And All Stadium Timeline – 2006
Former LFC owner David Moores has let it be known in a recent letter to The Times that he resents the accusation that a quick Google search would have uncovered a few outstanding bills and bankruptcies in Hicks and Gillett’s dusty cupboard and that he was remiss in handing custody of our club to the duo. He wrote, ‘The simple truth is we went way beyond Google in our check-ups.’ Rothschild – ‘one of the most respected names in global finance’ – vouched for both of them, Moores revealed: Rothschild being the firm that was representing… Hicks and Gillett. But with a day’s subscription to an electronic newspaper cuttings’ library costing around £20 back then, what would he have uncovered had he and Rick Parry done some cursory research into their new buddies? Enough to have made them hit the pause button, we contend, as we whizz back to the scene in the fans’ time-travelling regret-mobile. Continue reading Google is your friend
Why do so many Liverpool fans oppose Hicks and Gillett? When they bought the club in 2007, they quickly offered reassurances. George Gillett promised to make the club bigger than Chelsea and Manchester United and stated: “We have purchased the club with no debt on the club so, in that regard, it is different to the Glazers.” Meanwhile Hicks gave the game away about why he decided to join his friend in buying the club. “[Gillett] gave me a bunch of financial numbers which sounded attractive… I can totally understand what Glazer saw in Manchester United.” Continue reading LFC – It’s not lookin’ good
The newspaper detailed their answers to the questions put to them at their introductory press conference. For example: how often would they be there? ‘Hicks was at pains to mention his large family… Anybody spot the figureheads?’ So how much money would be available for transfers? ‘They were not happy at being pressed on the matter. At all,’ the newspaper reported, before concluding, ‘It is the duty of every right-thinking Liverpool fan to keep a close eye on events – and cry foul long and loud if they don’t like what they see.’ Continue reading Lessons Unlearned? Liverpool’s Owners, the Past, and Promises |    | ||||
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